Recent progress in semiconductor excitable lasers for photonic spike processing

PR Prucnal, BJ Shastri, T Ferreira de Lima… - Advances in Optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Recently, there has been tremendous interest in excitable optoelectronic devices and in
particular excitable semiconductor lasers that could potentially enable unconventional …

[BOOK][B] Neuromorphic photonics

PR Prucnal, BJ Shastri - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This book sets out to build bridges between the domains of photonic device physics and
neural networks, providing a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of" …

Delay dynamics of semiconductor lasers with short external cavities: Bifurcation scenarios and mechanisms

T Heil, I Fischer, W Elsäßer, B Krauskopf, K Green… - Physical Review E, 2003 - APS
We present a comprehensive study of the emission dynamics of semiconductor lasers
induced by delayed optical feedback from a short external cavity. Our analysis includes …

Electro-optic delay oscillator with nonlocal nonlinearity: Optical phase dynamics, chaos, and synchronization

R Lavrov, M Peil, M Jacquot, L Larger, V Udaltsov… - Physical Review E …, 2009 - APS
We demonstrate experimentally how nonlinear optical phase dynamics can be generated
with an electro-optic delay oscillator. The presented architecture consists of a linear phase …

Synchronization and communication using semiconductor lasers with optoelectronic feedback

HDI Abarbanel, MB Kennel, L Illing… - IEEE journal of …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semiconductor lasers provide an excellent opportunity for communication using chaotic
waveforms. We discuss the characteristics and the synchronization of two semiconductor …

Excitability and self-pulsations near homoclinic bifurcations in semiconductor laser systems

B Krauskopf, K Schneider, J Sieber, S Wieczorek… - Optics …, 2003 - Elsevier
Many laser systems show self-pulsations with a large amplitude that are born suddenly in a
homoclinic bifurcation. Just before the onset of these self-pulsations the laser is excitable …

A multiple time scale approach to the stability of external cavity modes in the Lang–Kobayashi system using the limit of large delay

S Yanchuk, M Wolfrum - SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2010 - SIAM
The Lang–Kobayashi model is a system of delay differential equations (DDEs) describing
the dynamics of a semiconductor laser under delayed optical feedback. In this paper, we …

High-dimensional harmonic balance analysis for second-order delay-differential equations

L Liu, T Kalmár-Nagy - Journal of Vibration and Control, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper demonstrates the utility of the high-dimensional harmonic balance (HDHB)
method for locating limit cycles of second-order delay-differential equations (DDEs). A matrix …

Staircase dynamics of a photonic microwave oscillator based on a laser diode with delayed optoelectronic feedback

MS Islam, AV Kovalev, G Coget, EA Viktorov… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
A laser diode subjected to optoelectronic feedback in which some light is converted to
photocurrent that is fed back into the laser injection terminals can display periodic …

Instabilities of lasers with moderately delayed optical feedback

M Wolfrum, D Turaev - Optics Communications, 2002 - Elsevier
We perform a bifurcation analysis of the Lang–Kobayashi system for a laser with delayed
optical feedback in the situation of moderate delay times. Using scaling methods, we are …